Private repository in Git — nothing pushed to Master branch

Question

Greetings: I am fairly new to GitHub but so far so good, until now. I have a private repository and cannot seem to push my commits. For example, I created a README.md file in my local directory. When I run git status it shows that it is being tracked. I can go ahead and add the file 'git add .', followed by git commit -m "Create README.md" . When I run the status at this point, everything is good. But, when I run a git push , I get a message:

No refs in common and none specified; doing nothing.
Perhaps you should specify a branch such as 'master'.
Everything up-to-date

My local directory shows the README.md file, but nothing on the private repository. I haven't any prior trouble with public repositories (ie, creating new repositories and pushing commits), but can't figure out why this won't work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

Answer 1

First you must define your remote origin:

git remote add origin git@github.com:username/first_app.git

Then your will be able to push to it:

git push origin master

https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-remote/